E-Voting Machines Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen

I'm all about saving paper and time, and that's why I think e-voting machines for next week's presidential election are the way to go. But, wait? What happens if they malfunction and thousands of votes get lost, or worse yet, they don't enter the system correctly? The following video is intended to show how e-voting machines work, with a local county clerk in West Virginia providing a demonstration. But instead, the the clerk encounters some problems with the machine as it doesn't select the proper candidate when entered. He blames it on the machine being out of calibration, and shrugs it off. Scary, scary indeed.

i think that we're ALWAYS going to run into issues with voting and making sure that the votes are registered properly - no matter how we go about it. this is a long standing issue that we're faced with and you can only expect technology to go so far in this. i hope that there's a solution before the election, cause you know that 2000 was just a peek into the issues that are truly going to come

There were e-voting machines where I went to vote, but they weren't touch-screens, which I am thankful for, because it's SO easy for touch-screens on anything to get out of calibration.
They had little scroll wheels, prev, next and enter buttons. It was a bit of an odd interface, but I trust it more than touch-screens.
And, I just have to say that, in a general sense, I don't trust paper more than machines. I've had more paper mail get lost than email. So many of my checks haven't shown up in time to pay bills, or simply haven't shown up at all. Letters and other packages I mail to my friends and family get lost all the time. The only thing is that people need to be absolutely positive beyond a doubt that these machines work properly before they're used for something as important as voting.

There were e-voting machines where I went to vote, but they weren't touch-screens, which I am thankful for, because it's SO easy for touch-screens on anything to get out of calibration.They had little scroll wheels, prev, next and enter buttons. It was a bit of an odd interface, but I trust it more than touch-screens.And, I just have to say that, in a general sense, I don't trust paper more than machines. I've had more paper mail get lost than email. So many of my checks haven't shown up in time to pay bills, or simply haven't shown up at all. Letters and other packages I mail to my friends and family get lost all the time. The only thing is that people need to be absolutely positive beyond a doubt that these machines work properly before they're used for something as important as voting.

I don't get it. We have iPhones, people. In fact, we have ATMs that people trust on a daily basis. WHY can't someone in the government hire those people to make this work in a user-friendly software???